Quotes About Effort

The most important thing is to show up. You've just got to get your butt out there.

For anyone, the most important thing is to play good, to perform good, to score goals for your team.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

Something I remind myself every day, just do your job to the best of your ability and that's the most important thing.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax.

I really like my legs because I've worked hard for them. With soccer, that's the one thing you're working all the time.

The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.

The one thing you can control is effort.

I can understand a bad pass or something like that; I don't get irate. But the one thing I can never accept is a lack of work rate. You have to be able to give everything you have.

The one thing about college basketball is you don't have to have the best player to win.

If I'm not playing well, or I'm trying things and they're not coming off, the one thing I will always do is work hard. And I think, as a fan, that's the least you can ask for.

The one thing I'll never do is I'll never jeopardize my preparation. I'll never jeopardize any time or energy or efforts that need to be put into my preparation to play football.

The only thing we can control is the daily work we put in, and that's all that matters.

Never equate yourself with whatever success may be and how fleeting that is. The only thing you can do every day is become a better actor. That's the only thing I have control over.

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

The only thing I want to do is keep working and keep giving everything I can in every game.

And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

If you get through the primary and you work very hard for three months and you're not successful, you go back to being normal. The only thing that changes your life forever is if you win.

Waxing my legs is pretty much the only thing I have to maintain.

My mom did a good job making sure I worked for everything I got. Really, it just helped me realize the real world and how people who don't have everything have to work for stuff.

I have to make an effort about things like going to the grocery store. That stuff reminds me that I don't live in the real world, and you know what? I'm thankful.

If you think about it, it requires a lot of effort and time and energy to make money in the real world, and if they made games equally as difficult to make money in, people wouldn't play them. So they are generally designed to be hyper-inflationary because that's more fun.

If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.